Ajith Kumar Quotes

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

I don't really say, 'Is this script Catholic or not?'. But if I find it to be immoral, or it doesn't sit right with me, which happens a lot these days because there's a lot of garbage being written... I'm like, 'I'm not doing this.'

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

I cannot do a film I don't believe in, however safe it might be.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.

I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.

I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.

I've been approached to do reality shows, but even though the fees are very, very attractive, I always say no because money should never be your motivation.

We have so little control as actors, but there are ways you can maintain your integrity. I have to say I've never compromised myself in this career once. I've never done something I didn't believe in.